Author: A. J. Buchanan

Born: De­cem­ber 1854, Linn Coun­ty, Mis­sou­ri.
Adoniram was the 12th of 14 child­ren born to Jo­seph Bu­chan­an and Sar­ah Eliz­a­beth (Mc­Comb) Bu­chan­an, both na­tives of Kings­ton, Roane County, Ten­nes­see. In 1867, short­ly af­ter the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, the Bu­chan­ans moved to a com­mun­i­ty near Sher­man in Gray­son County, Tex­as, pur­chas­ing sev­er­al acres of land and set­tling near the El­mont Com­mun­i­ty, a few miles west of Van Al­styne, Tex­as. They moved to be near Mrs. Bu­chan­an’s bro­ther, Rev. Tho­mas Ben­ton Mc­Comb, who had moved to this area in the 1850’s to get the Bap­tist church es­tab­lished in Tex­as. Adon­i­ram was liv­ing in Kan­sas Ci­ty,… Go to person page >